Gary Soto is an amazing poetry writter! Gary Soto was born in April 12 , 1952 raised in Fresno California. He is the author of
eleven poetry collections for adults.
this is the poem that i like,
Gary Soto is the young people ambassador for the United Farm Workers of America.
By 1985,Soto had produced four books of poetry and been published in magezines.
The Red Palm It's dusk, now night, And the lights in your home are on. That costs money, yellow light In the kitchen. That's thirty steps, You say to your hands, Now shaped into binoculars. You could raise them to your eyes: You were a fool in school, now look at you. You're a giant among cotton plants. Now you see your oldest boy, also running. Papa, he says, it's time to come in. You pull him into your lap And ask, What's forty times nine? He knows as well as you, and you smile. The wind makes peace with the trees, The stars strike themselves in the dark. You get up and walk with the sigh of cotton plants. You go to sleep with a red sun on your palm The sore light you see when you first stir in bed
Looking Around, Believing
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How strange that we can begin at any time.
With two feet we get down the street.
With a hand we undo the rose.
With an eye we lift up the peach tree
And hold it up to the wind — white blossoms
At our feet. Like today. I started
In the yard with my daughter,With my wife poking at a potted geranium,And now I am walking down the street,Amazed that the sun is only so high,Just over the roof, and a childIs singing through a rolled newspaperAnd a terrier is leaping like a fleaAnd at the bakery I pass, a palm,Like a suctioning starfish, is pressedTo the window.We're keeping busy—This way,that way, we're making shadowsWhere sunlight was,makingwordsWhere there was only noise in the trees.</span></span></span></span>
He began writing about 15 years ago while he was in collige.lightHe gave up geography for poetry.
He liked Spanish and Latin American poets particularly Pablo, Neruda
as a young age, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin valley.
he was not academically motivated as a child,but became interested in poetry during his high school years.
his first collection of poem, the element of San Joaquin, won the united states awared of the international pooetry forumin 1976 and was published in 1977.
Gary Soto is an amazing poetry writter! Gary Soto was born in April 12 , 1952 raised in Fresno California. He is the author of
eleven poetry collections for adults.
this is the poem that i like,
Gary Soto is the young people ambassador for the United Farm Workers of America.
By 1985,Soto had produced four books of poetry and been published in magezines.
The Red Palm
It's dusk, now night,
And the lights in your home are on.
That costs money, yellow light In the kitchen. That's thirty steps,
You say to your hands,
Now shaped into binoculars.
You could raise them to your eyes:
You were a fool in school, now look at you.
You're a giant among cotton plants.
Now you see your oldest boy, also running.
Papa, he says, it's time to come in.
You pull him into your lap
And ask, What's forty times nine?
He knows as well as you, and you smile.
The wind makes peace with the trees,
The stars strike themselves in the dark.
You get up and walk with the sigh of cotton plants.
You go to sleep with a red sun on your palm
The sore light you see when you first stir in bed
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